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James Marshall, an itinerant carpenter, discovered gold in California, launching the largest mining rush in American history.​
Marshall arrived in California in 1845, settling at Sutter’s Fort in New Helvetia (now Sacramento). John A. Sutter employed him as general handyman, with a special commission to cooper and wright an undershot water sawmill some 40 miles up the American River from the Fort. Marshall dug the races, erected the wheel and, on January 24, 1848, let loose the water. There was a problem with some unanticipated earth wash, so he shut down the system and walked down the tailrace. His eye caught the glitter of something lodged in a crevice and, when he picked up the substance, found it to be quite heavy and peculiar in color. It was unlike anything he’d ever seen in the river before. He sent an Indian boy for a tin plate on which he collected several small cubical crystals and sparkling flakes. Marshall appears to have had no doubt about what he had found, but ran several tests to confirm his suspicions. He had the camp cook boil the flakes and crystals in the lye of her soap kettle and, by the next morning, the grains showed no discoloration. He then had the blacksmith beat some flecks on his anvil and was pleased to note the crystals would flatten but not break. Marshall returned to the mill, collected more of the metallic nuggets and headed down to the Fort to show Sutter his discovery. Together they tested the nuggets with aquafortis (nitric acid) and weighed them with an equal amount of silver. Their tests proved beyond a doubt—Marshall’s find was pure gold.​
Both men desperately attempted to keep their discovery a secret but, by the spring of 1849, over 50,000 Americans were headed for California. The greatest gold rush in history had begun.​

James Marshall was a tragic figure of the California Gold Rush for, though he was the true discoverer of the gold, thereafter the metal eluded him. He became so cantankerous that he was driven from ever

American pioneer who discovered gold in California in 1848

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James Wilson Marshall (October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) was an American carpenter and sawmill operator, who on January 24, 1848, reported the finding of gold at Coloma, California, a small settlement on the American River about 36 miles northeast of Sacramento. His discovery was the impetus for the California gold rush. The mill property was owned by Johann (John) Sutter who employed Marshall to build his mill. The wave of gold seekers turned everyone's attention away from the mill which eventually fell into disrepair and was never used as intended. Neither Marshall nor Sutter ever profited from the gold find.

Biography

James Wilson Marshall, of English descent, was born to Philip Marshall and Sarah Wilson (married 1808) at the family homestead in Hopewell Township, New Jersey (then part of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, currently part of Mercer County) on October 8, 1810. The family homestead was known as the Round Mountain Farm and is still known as Marshalls Corner. He was the oldest of four children, and the only male. In 1816, the Marshall family relocated to nearby Lambertville, where Philip constructed a still-surviving house on approximately five acres of land.

James left New Jersey in 1834 and headed west. After spending time in Indiana and Illinois, he settled in Missouri (in an area created by the Platte Purchase) in 1844, and began farming along the Missouri River. It was there that he contracted malaria, a common affliction in the area. On the advice of his doctor, Marshall left Missouri in the hopes of improving his health. He joined an emigrant train heading west and arrived in Oregon's Willamette Valley in the spring of 1845. He left Oregon in June 1845 and headed south along the Siskiyou Trail into

September 2013

By Kristy Lockhart

“I would much rather have a friend like you than all the gardens in the world.”-Martha, George and Martha Encore

Celebrated picture book illustrator and author James “Jim” Marshall was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1942. The son of an insurance salesman, George Marshall, and Cecille Harrison Marshall, he doodled a great deal in his early years, but discouraged from the pastime early in his schooling, he focused his energy instead on his prodigious musical talent, studying the viola and violin and eventually earning a coveted scholarship to attend the New England Conservatory in Boston. Unfortunately, he had only been attending the school for a year when a serious injury to his hand put an end to his musical career before it had even begun. Undaunted, Marshall decided to study French and History at Trinity College and then Southern Connecticut State College, where he earned a Master’s degree, before returning to Boston to teach at Cathedral High School in the South End.

During this stint as a teacher, Marshall began to draw seriously again. In 1971 a friend convinced him to take some of his sketches to Houghton Mifflin, and a few short weeks later an editor there asked him to illustrate Plink, Plink, Plink by Byrd Baylor (1971). Though the book was not a success, Houghton Mifflin was impressed with Marshall and a year later he published his own first book, George and Martha (1971), which heralded the arrival of what would become Marshall’s most endearing characters: a pair of best friends, who happen to be hippos, named (with Marshall’s usual tongue-in-cheek humor) for the embattled main characters in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.  The book immediately made a splash in the world of children’s books and was listed as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year and an American Library Association Notable Book for 1972.

Marshall’s deceptively simp

American actor

James David Greenblatt (born January 2, 1967), best known as James Marshall, is an American actor, known for playing the character James Hurley in the television seriesTwin Peaks (1990–1991), its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, and its 2017 revival, and for his role as Private Louden Downey in A Few Good Men (1992).

Early life

Marshall was born in Queens, New York. His father, William R. Greenblatt, was a Radio City Music Hall publicist, and his mother, Charlotte Green, danced with The Rockettes as Charlotte Bullard. The family moved from New Jersey to California in the 1980s. Marshall has one sister, Kat Green, a music and film producer.

Career

Marshall's feature debut film was the Charlie Sheen vehicle, Cadence (1990). He played the lead role in Gladiator (1992). Since then, Marshall has appeared in numerous films: Hits! (1994), Vibrations (1996), All She Ever Wanted (1996), Criminal Affairs (1997), Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999), Luck of the Draw (2000), alongside Naomi Watts in Down (2001) and Alien Lockdown (2004). He also provided the voice for Kurt in the video gameUnlimited Saga.

Personal life

Marshall is married to actress Renee Griffin, with whom he has a son and a stepson.

In summer 2010, Marshall sued the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche (a unit of Roche Holding AG) for $11 million in damages for injuries which, he claimed, resulted from his taking the drug Accutane. He claimed he had suffered Accutane-r